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Monday - Sarah Walker with Alec Baldwin

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love the Waltz; CD Review recommendation: Poulenc: Concerto; Artists associated with Vienna: Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Part 1).

9am
Sarah presents '5 Reasons to Love... the Waltz'. Throughout the week she enjoys its elegance and expressivity; its high-spirited flirtatiousness; its capacity to conjure up fairytale romance; the Viennese pride expressed in the waltzes of the Strauss family; and the way it can seem to spin out of control, revealing its darker side. Sarah shares waltzes by composers including Weber, Liszt, Johann Strauss II (arr. Webern), Chopin and Prokofiev.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am
Sarah's guest is the Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin. A star of the small screen as well as the silver screen, Alec is known for both his comic and dramatic roles, and has amassed a list of film and TV credits including 30 Rock, The Hunt for Red October and the latest film in the Mission: Impossible series: Rogue Nation. Alec is a passionate classical music fan, whose damascene moment was hearing Mahler's 9th Symphony conducted by Sir Georg Solti whilst driving his car in Los Angeles. Mahler is still his number one love and he even had a special 'Mahler clause' inserted into his contract when filming It's Complicated. Alec also presents concerts for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra - he's said "It's my favourite job that I've ever had." Alec will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music every day at 10am, including pieces by Sibelius, Rodrigo and Ravel, as well as works by the British composers Vaughan Williams and Frank Bridge.

10.30am
Sarah features the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

Poulenc
Concerto in G minor for organ, timpani and strings

11am
In the week of Radio 3's annual broadcast of the long-running New Year's Day Concert from Vienna, Sarah presents four great artists associated with that famously musical city - Concentus Musicus Wien, the Alban Berg Quartet, Friedrich Gulda and the Vienna Philharmonic, in music by Bach, Ravel, Richard Strauss and Beethoven.

Bach
Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248; pt 1
Bernarda Fink, alto
Werner G眉ra, tenor
Gerald Finley, bass
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor.

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Mon 28 Dec 2015 09:00
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    I. Presto (Bassoon Concerto in E flat, RV483)

    Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Ensemble: L'Aura Soave Cremona.
    • NAIVE.

  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...THE WALTZ

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      Invitation to the Dance, Op 65

      Music Arranger: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
      • SONY.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (A German Requiem, Op 45)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sinfonia in B minor, Wq 182 No 5

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Divertimento Op.37

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo No.4 in E, Op.54

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • HYPERION.

  • Gustav Mahler

    'Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt' (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

    Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • ALEC BALDWIN'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Pas de deux (The Nutcracker)

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
      • EMI.

  • ALEC BALDWIN'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Jean Sibelius

      I. Tempo molto moderato, quasi adagio (Symphony No.4)

      Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
      • SONY.

  • THE BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION FROM LAST SATURDAY'S CD REVIEW

    • Francis Poulenc

      Organ Concerto in G minor

      Performer: Peter King. Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
      • REGENT.

  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • ERATO.

  • VIENNESE ARTIST: CONCENTUS MUSICUS WIEN

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 (Part 1)

      Singer: Bernarda Fink. Singer: Werner G眉ra. Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
      • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet No.5 in D major, K.593

    Ensemble: Grumiaux Trio. Performer: Arpad G茅recz. Performer: Max Lesueur.
    • PHILIPS.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Mahler
Symphony No.2: 3rd movement
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI

Broadcast

  • Mon 28 Dec 2015 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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